Teamwork Vital To Data Protection Reforms, EU Official Says

Law360, Washington (March 7, 2012, 9:45 PM EST) -- A European Commission official on Wednesday called for increased cooperation among regulators in member states and abroad in order to successfully apply proposed data protection reforms, a move backed by regulators in England, Germany and Ireland.

National and international regulators' ability to work together to craft agreements over divergent privacy and data protection beliefs is essential to achieving the harmony and legal certainty that the commission hopes to create with its recently-introduced data protection reform, according to Laura Corrado, the European Commission's data protection unit deputy...